According to traditional definition a 'professor’ is “someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university.” When searching online, wikipedia.org defines a professor as “a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. Professors are qualified experts who give lectures and seminars in their field of study, such as the basic fields of science or literature or the applied fields of engineering, medicine, law, or business.”

Too often in our schools and universities do we find that these bland and mundane definitions hold true: a teacher who has seen “too much” or the jaded professor going through the motions. This is not to say that the academia has been overthrown by the inept; rather that it is this inept definition of the proponents of the academia that has been taken too seriously by the very same people.

Walk up three flights of stairs to the third story of Voorhies Hall on the UC Davis campus, step into Room 350, and you will find another definition for the word 'professor’. Welcome to the office of Professor Kevin Roddy. Born in San Francisco on December 18th, 1943, the third of four children to James and Marian (Misuraca) Roddy, Kevin wasted no time in getting to where he is today. At the age of 22 he received his B.A. in English from Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington;